Runners, meet the charities with 2009 Boston Marathon numbers. They’re looking for good people like you - runners who want to make a difference.
Boston Partners in Education - Learn more
To apply, email Matthew Allen or call him at 617-451-6145
Brigham and Women’s Hospital - Learn more
To apply, email Suzanne Leidel or call 617-424-4309
Charlestown Lacrosse
To apply, email Bob Cutler or call 617-242-1813
Cycle Kids - Learn more
To apply, visit their website and click Marathon
Esplanade Association - Learn more
Apply for a number
Gay Men’s Domestic Violence Project - Learn more
To apply, email Jeff Newton
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary - Learn more
To apply, email Kristina Sym or call 617-573-6364
If you’ve been on the fence about doing Boston, apply today - spots are filling up fast.
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If you’re a charity with Boston Numbers - tell us and we will add it to this post.
Running for a charity is by far the best experience and the most memorable way to run.
It is a very select group of special athletes who are usually effected by the cause they run for in some way. For myself, I am the manager of 2 programs - GoKids Boston and The Lazarus House Hunger Strikers team and I can honestly say that the runners that I choose for my team go above and beyond the fundraising efforts but act as true ambassadors for the charities. They learn to talk the talk and walk the walk about the mission of the charity and this in turn generates more donations.
Picking charity runners isn’t easy - there are so many people who want to run but what I look for in my runners is strong character, fundraising ablility, commitment to training and willingness to devote your running - something so important to the charity. Charities are looking for you to help them and while that is a big responsibility be chosen for a team it is a great inspiration to many. Knowing when you stand on that starting line and you begin running that each step that is made has helped effect change in someone’s life is something to be very proud of.
I wouldn’t do it any other way now - running for a charity is by far the most impactful and inspirational way to run Boston.
If you are interested in a team - please feel free to email me at charityteams@comcast.net
Hi
Could i get more information about the fundraising
I did a Goofy this year,.. I am not very fast… but I finish. I had an accident and almost chop my toes.. but I would like to run the Boston and help a charity.
I ran for NaCOA National Association of Children of Acocholic Parents, before and also I raised money for the Diabetes Awareness (biking )
Let me know if this would be possible for me to do, and how much I need to raise
Thanks and Blessings
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I’m really interested in running for Pancreatic Cancer Research as I have lost my mother and my mother in law to pancreatic cancer in the last 3 years. I have not qualified for Boston yet - January, 2008 I missed it by three minutes. How does it work? Boston is my big goal! I am a house prinicpal for a 5A High School here in Houston, Mother of 3 active children.
Thanks,
mb